Judge: Cell phone search in child porn case was legal. Matt Milner, The Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis. Thu, June 27, 2024 at 1:46 AM UTC. 1 min read.

From a decision by Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui (D.D.C.) in In re: Search of One Device and Two Individuals (decided last month but just released Tuesday): The videos [of the arrest] showed the ...

Police searches using location data from random cell phones are unconstitutional, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has unanimously ruled. This type of dragnet search is a violation of ...

Judge Karl L. Schock wrote separately to say that while he ultimately believed police were justified in relying upon the warrant, it was, in fact, an "all encompassing search" of the cell phone ...

Last year, a judge in the Southern District of New York also ruled that the government "may not copy and search an American citizen's cell phone at the border without a warrant absent exigent ...

A case argued before the Michigan Supreme Court Thursday could decide what’s required for police to search through someone’s cell phone. The case involves a man accused of robbing his neighbor.

The Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement decrees that search warrants must specifically describe the place to be searched and the items to be seized, prohibiting general searches and ...

A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a friend in Jersey City is getting a new trial after an appeals court found a search warrant on his phone was too broad, rendering it ...